Task Three: Inventions and the Industrial Revolution
A. Click on the link to answer the following:
http://www.inventions-handbook.com/victorian-inventions.html
List five (5) inventions of the Victorian Era. For each invention, explain how it impacted society.
1. Invention? Impact on society.
2. Invention? Impact on society.
3. Invention? Impact on society.
4. Invention? Impact on society.
5. Invention? Impact on society.
B. Click on the link to answer the following:
http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/articles/poverty.html
6. How did the Industrial Revolution affect housing?
7. What impacted the hygiene of the poor? How?
Click on the image “London through the haze”
8. How did the Industrial Revolution affect pollution?
C. Click on the link to answer the following: http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/diseases_industrial_revolution.htm
9. Analyze the cartoon, “A filthy Father Thames.” What point is the cartoonist making? Explain your response.
10. Why did so many people die from diseases?
11. What was the cause of the cholera outbreaks in London? What percentage of infected people died as a result?
12. Why were cholera, tuberculosis, typhoid, typhus and smallpox spread so easily in the cities?
D. Click on the link to answer the following:
bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/speed_01.shtml
13. How did the introduction of the steam engine and the improvement of the railway system change Victorian rural and urban populations?
14. What was the impact of the telegraph on the Victorian communications systems?
A. Click on the link to answer the following:
http://www.inventions-handbook.com/victorian-inventions.html
List five (5) inventions of the Victorian Era. For each invention, explain how it impacted society.
1. Invention? Impact on society.
2. Invention? Impact on society.
3. Invention? Impact on society.
4. Invention? Impact on society.
5. Invention? Impact on society.
B. Click on the link to answer the following:
http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/articles/poverty.html
6. How did the Industrial Revolution affect housing?
7. What impacted the hygiene of the poor? How?
Click on the image “London through the haze”
8. How did the Industrial Revolution affect pollution?
C. Click on the link to answer the following: http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/diseases_industrial_revolution.htm
9. Analyze the cartoon, “A filthy Father Thames.” What point is the cartoonist making? Explain your response.
10. Why did so many people die from diseases?
11. What was the cause of the cholera outbreaks in London? What percentage of infected people died as a result?
12. Why were cholera, tuberculosis, typhoid, typhus and smallpox spread so easily in the cities?
D. Click on the link to answer the following:
bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/speed_01.shtml
13. How did the introduction of the steam engine and the improvement of the railway system change Victorian rural and urban populations?
14. What was the impact of the telegraph on the Victorian communications systems?